This month's #fullmoonmosaic at Instagram asked for a tile with two circles of different size and off center with tangle pattern Madama on the inside and A-dalfa on the outside. Click here to see what others have done. The good thing in this challenge: only one tile a month and you have a whole month to join your tile before the new challenge is up and running. Love it.
Tangle Patterns:
This week's (or was it last week's?) facebook group Anything Goes runs under the theme 'Supersize' (I would have called it XXXL, but...), and I loved it immediately. I like monotangle tiles and this one asks that we draw the tangle itself ... XXXL. I tore one of my bookmark leftover paper strips into 3 5.7 cm square tiles and started drawing....
Garlic Cloves, X-perope, and an unrecognizable Dublin.
Tangle Patterns: Garlic Cloves, X-perope, and an unrecognizable Dublin
DIVA challenge #376, the 'It could be a Mosaic'. I used one of my Refresher tiles as inspiration for this challenge, Tanglepatterns.com Refresher #78 (see after the mosaic tiles). I took 4 small tiles (5.7cm square), but still it took me a very long time to finished them.
Mosaic A with combo
Mosaic B with combo
Mosaic C with combo
Tangle Patterns: Dublin, Shell xCape modified, Archer, Snapa, Elfhat, Abreve,
Loopy, MySwing, Tadpoles, Tipple, Fescu
The inspirational Refresher #78 tile.
Tangle Patterns: Crescent Moon, Tadpoles, Quare, Batch, Loopy
DIVA challenge #377 with Fengle vs Pokeroot. I am on my FB Anything Goes "Supersize" trip, the best way to catch up with challenges I missed as of late.
Tangle Patterns: Fengle, Pokeroot, tiny Tipple
Gratitangles day 6 with Verdigogh, day 10 with only single Cymes (and shaded as background filler) and FB's challenge Wigwag, as a border.
Tangle Patterns: Verdigogh, Cyme, Wigwag
Gratitangles 2018 on Mini tiles day 18 with Nymph, jumping the line with day 29 and the combo Pokeroot/Pokeleaf and some day 6 Verdigogh as garnishing.
Tangle Patterns: Nymph, Pokeroot/Pokeleaf, Verdigogh
Square One Nov 23-29 with Qua-Sahnt. Not sure I got this tangle right though. I made 2 tiles to practice. Green: Q-S with Kinggo; Brown: Q-S with a vase.
Tangle Patterns: Qua-Sahnt with Kinggo and with vase
IAST challenge #271 with XLNT (meaning 'Excellent' I assume?). Now this I call a line work 'test, fun, and exercise' and I grabbed it with both hands. The packaging paper is a bit on the uneven side, but on its surface interrupted lines can easily be continued without leaving that tale-tell blotch. For me this tile was not so much about the end result, more about its therapeutic value.
I am still practicing Dew Drops. Maybe I should draw at least one D.D. on every tile until the end of the year to become the super master in Dew Drops drawing?
Tangle Pattern: XLNT with Dew Drops
IAST challenge #269 with Soluna, starting the tangle from opposite corners and different sizes. I am not much of a Soluna fan, but appreciate the tangle. However, I admit I googled for car wheels to get some different Soluna filler ideas. So here my car wheel Soluna on a mini tile:
Tangle Pattern: Soluna
Animal Sad Day and Mine
This is the tile I was working on when Shadow died. It was supposed to be a happy and hopeful tile, green on the outside and blue in the middle. It wasn't a challenge, no prompts, no string...just trying to give Snapa, a fairly new tangle I thought was interesting, a go. I started it in the morning working on the green parts...two days later I continued, swapping the intended blue color for black. It is now my 'Shadow' tile
Tangle Patterns: Snapa, Toodles, a bit of Narwal
Shadow died November 22nd, 2018. He was given to me when he was 4 months old and he was such a cutie. I adored him and fell in love with him on first sight! I remember him galloping towards me, fur flying in all directions. He looked like a mini Afghan (or flying carpet) with his long black fur everywhere, or when spread out on his belly on the floor like a mini furry foot mat. He loved everybody, but accepted a cat sleeping next to him only when he was old and wise. He was my team mate, my roommate that never contributed to the rent or brought me breakfast to bed, but he never took over the TV remote control. He was perfect! I thoroughly miss my darling Shadow and the good times we had.
As a Swiss I never heard of the Rainbow Bridge legend, a Native American believe, until the Internet. When pets die they cross the Rainbow Bridge to play and have fun with other animals. When our time comes they will spot us and run towards us and we will never be parted again. Then we cross the Rainbow Bridge together.... I love the idea!
Shadow in his last days. My neighbor's homeless cat often visited him, slept with him, ate with him, but she would not walk with him in the rain.
Goodbye my darling and R.I.P.!
Shadow!
I don't want to end this post on a sad note, so...
Animal Happy Days
If this dog hasn't figured out what makes life great I don't know who has - or a case of self-inflicted well-being.
Bye for now...
